Surgical cotton or absorbent cotton is in great demand all over the world, but with desi cotton — considered ideal raw material for it — being edged out, manufacturers have been banking heavily on
Leaked EU draft texts confirm expectations that the 27-member bloc is likely to seek to 'green' farm subsidy payments after 2013 by adding new rules on protecting the environment. Controversially, though, the drafts also reveal new plans to allow some countries to re-allocate more direct payments to the production of particular crops - reversing prior attempts to 'decouple' farm support from production and thus reduce the trade distortions that this support might cause.
The Punjab Government today ordered a special girdawari to assess the damage to the cotton, paddy and fodder crops, and that also to the houses, due to the recent rain and floods.
Due to the floods, 80 percent of banana, dates, chilli, sugar cane and especially cotton crop (equivalent of 2.3 million bales destroyed), and a total of 690,000 houses have been destroyed.
MPA Ghulam Qadir Chandio has said that 98 per cent standing crop of cotton on 452,000 acres has been destroyed throughout Shaheed Benazirabad district during the recent rainfall and almost 300,000
Land acquisition overseas for farming could soon become a reality. The agriculture ministry plans to announce a policy that will allow farmers to buy land in continents like South America and Africa to farm for all sorts of crops.
To maximize the potential of agricultural scale up, NGOs need to act as facilitators of multi-stakeholder processes that establish new types of farmer organizations, alliances to influence policy and investment, new business models, and innovative ways of delivery market services.
India's monsoon rains were 14 percent above normal in the week to Aug 11, improving sharply from 22 percent below average the previous week, the weather office said on Thursday, boosting the produc
